Chris Silverwood
Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood
Born: 5 March 1975, Pontefract, Yorkshire
Major Teams: Yorkshire, England.
Known As: Chris Silverwood
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Test Debut: England v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, 1st Test, 1996/97
Latest Test: England v South Africa at Centurion, 5th Test, 1999/00
ODI Debut: England v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, 1st ODI, 1996/97
Latest ODI: England v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, 5th ODI, 2001/02
NBC Denis Compton Award 1996
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(including 14/01/2000)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 5 6 3 19 7* 6.33 29.23 0 0 2 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 134 27 415 11 37.72 5-91 1 0 73.0 3.09
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
(including 13/10/2001)
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 7 4 0 17 12 4.25 50.00 0 0 0 0
O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 51 0 244 6 40.66 3-43 0 0 51.0 4.78
FIRST-CLASS
(1993 - 2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 122 161 32 2013 70 15.60 0 5 26 0
O R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 3349 10513 391 26.88 7-93 18 1 51.3 3.13
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1993 - 2002)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 157 86 31 779 61 14.16 0 4 25 0
O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 1182.5 4925 211 23.34 5-28 4 1 33.6 4.16
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Born in Pontefract in March 1975, Chris Silverwood is a natural sportsman
who boasts a black belt in karate and represented Yorkshire at athletics in
his youth. Silverwood won a place at the Yorkshire Cricket Academy and made
his first-class debut for the county in 1993. He soon impressed as one of a
remarkable troop of young fast bowlers from Yorkshire, and won a place for
England U19 against India in 1994. With hunched shoulders and a powerful
leap into his fairly chest-on delivery stride, Silverwood uses his whole 13
and-a-half stone, 6' 1" frame to generate considerable pace and bounce from
a long, straight run.
Silverwood took just 18 wickets at 35 in 1995, but 47 wickets in the 1996
championship season won him his county cap and the Cricket Writers' Young
Cricketer of the Year award. He was the surprise selection on the winter
tour of Zimbabwe and New Zealand but impressed, winning selection for the
first Test ahead of Caddick and taking 3-63 and 1-8 against Zimbabwe in
Bulawayo. He also made his one-day international debut in Zimbabwe, playing
in each of the three games as England slipped to a 3-0 defeat. He was
unlucky not to gain another Test cap after taking 6-44 against New Zealand A
at Wanganui, though he did play in another two one-day internationals,
including an unsuccessful stint as a pinch-hitter at Wellington. He later
played the same role with some success for Yorkshire in county cricket.
Silverwood lost rhythm at the start of 1997, and was unable to build on the
momentum that placed him in the Test reckoning, enduring one expensive spell
in a one-dayer against Australia at Lord's. But he came back well in the
second half of the season, culminating in 7-93 and 5-55 against Kent,
career-best figures for the match and innings. Consistently good seasons in
1998 (48 wickets at 23) and 1999 (59 wickets at 20) kept him in
consideration for higher honours, and he toured the West Indies (1997-98)
without playing in a Test.
He had to wait until the 1999-2000 tour of South Africa for a recall.
Bowling with surprising pace and hostility (he was timed at 149.6 kph in
Port Elizabeth, about 93 mph), he won the new ball ahead of Gough and took a
Test-best 5-91 at Cape Town. However, a relative lack of movement off the
seam or in the air counted against him and he slipped behind in the race for
inclusion in England's pace attack.
The 2000 season was disrupted by injury, and he was overlooked in favour of
Yorkshire teammates Ryan Sidebottom and Matthew Hoggard then and at the
start of 2001, despite a good A Tour of the West Indies. But he responded in
fine style, and forced his way back into the reckoning with three
five-wicket hauls, including 5-20 against Glamorgan and a career-best 70,
bludgeoned off 74 balls against Essex. He nonetheless remained on the
international fringe throughout the summer and, although he did nothing
wrong in the one ODI he played on England's short tour of Zimbabwe which
followed, there was no place for him in either of England's winter squads.
To his frustration he remained tantalisingly on the fringe of international
recognition in 2002 but it was not until the unfortunate injury to Simon
Jones in the Brisbane Test of the Ashes tour that he was finally called into
the Test squad. This was familiar territory for Silverwood, having been
called away from A tours in both 1998 and 1999 to join the full squad,
giving him another chance to prove that he has matured into a genuine
international prospect. (Copyright Cricinfo November 2002)
Last Updated: Saturday, 09-Nov-2002 15:01:41 GMT
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